Former ANC Youth League spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has been expelled, youth league convenor Mzwandile Masina announced on Tuesday. He said that, by his own action and accord, Shivambu already defined himself outside the discipline of the youth league and its mother body.
"Mr Shivambu has made it his full-time job to undermine the organisation and its leadership. We have a warning to many others who might have ideas to follow the same anarchic line that we are not going to sit in our laurels and become spectators when they are blatantly undermining our organisation," he reinforced.
Responding to his suspension, Shivambu said in a statement on his Facebook face that he finds it hilarious since he gave away his membership of the Zuma ANC and the Zuma Youth League. “It is directionless, possibly the most corrupt and openly neo-liberal political formation that will never solve South Africa’s problems.”
He added that he will never be silenced by cowardly acts of repression and that he will carry on to be inspired by the Freedom Charter and to fight for the people’s economic liberation.
Shivambu was last year suspended from the ANC for three years and had to vacate his position as a member of the national executive committee of the league. This is after he was found guilty of contravening the ANC's constitution by swearing at a journalist and issuing a statement in his capacity as a youth league spokesperson about creating regime change in Botswana, which contradicted ANC policy.
Speaking at a press briefing, Masina called on Shivambu to come forward if he wanted to engage and stop behaving as if he held monopoly of wisdom on all issues. "He must stop reading lots of foreign material and watching horror movies in broad daylight, and start focusing on his studies. Clearly, his imagination of South Africa is far removed from reality."
Meanwhile, the national working task team also constituted task teams in areas where the ANC Youth League was disbanded last month. Masina said consultation processes were undertaken to ensure that the final product was equipped with the necessary energy and had the support needed to be able to fulfil the task at hand.